Speaker
Erik Heijne
(CERN)
Description
Abstract
Invited Tutorial
Microelectronics technologies play an ever more important role in medical imaging,
both in the imaging devices themselves and in the digital capabilities to enhance and
analyze the image. This trend will continue in the future, and instrumentation
developments in elementary particle physics can serve as a proving ground for new
directions in digital imaging detectors. Specific aspects are the use of direct
conversion in a semiconductor matrix, innovative 3-dimensional detector construction,
very fast signal processing, on-line data pre-processing and massive parallelism at
the system level. Besides the general roadmap in CMOS the presentation will discuss
recent directions in technology that aim at system integration at the hardware level
such as multilayer devices and high density interconnects. With the Medipix
development as an example, the ultimate aim of single photon imaging will be
discussed. The cost aspects of the semiconductor imager options have to be taken into
account in the R&D phase.
Author
Erik Heijne
(CERN)